Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.